​"Humans are tuned for relationship.  The eyes, the skin, the tongue, ears and nostrils- all are gates where our body receives the nourishment of otherness."

-David Abram "The Spell of the Sensuous."

​"Attachment and commitment are very different but they often get conflated.  Attachment is wanting things a certain way.  Commitment is staying steady in the direction of our aspirations."

-Joseph Goldstein

​"The more you know yourself, the more the imagined differences between you and others dissolve."

-Ram Dass

"Tomorrow, and plans for tomorrow, can have no significance at all unless you are in full contact with the reality of the present since it is in the present, and only in the present, that you live."

-Alan Watts

​"What if our badness and mistakes are the very thing that set our fate and bring us round to good?  What if, for someone of us, we can't get there any other way?"

-Donna Tartt (from The Goldfinch)

"It's an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when they have lost their way."

-Rollo May

Intimacy requires courage because risk is inescapable.  We cannot know at the outset how the relationship will affect us.  Like a chemical mixture, if one of us is changed, both of us will be.  Will we grow in self-actualization, or will it destroy us?  The one thing we can be certain of is that if we let ourselves fully into the relationship for good or evil, we will not come out unaffected."

-Rollo May

"Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness."

-Carl Jung